. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . THE FAR-STRETCHING ENCAMPMENT. (Cumberland Landing.)Three quarters of a mile from the landing, looking north toward theriver. The distance is obscured by the haze of smoke from thousandsof camp-fires. Every bit of dried wood had been collected and consumed,and standing timber was felled in all directions. WHERE SUPPLIES WERE LANDED AT CUMBERLAND. The south bank of the Pamunkey, looking northwest across the lower this bend of the river was gathered the nondescript fleet of transports,steamers, barges, and schooners that conv
. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . THE FAR-STRETCHING ENCAMPMENT. (Cumberland Landing.)Three quarters of a mile from the landing, looking north toward theriver. The distance is obscured by the haze of smoke from thousandsof camp-fires. Every bit of dried wood had been collected and consumed,and standing timber was felled in all directions. WHERE SUPPLIES WERE LANDED AT CUMBERLAND. The south bank of the Pamunkey, looking northwest across the lower this bend of the river was gathered the nondescript fleet of transports,steamers, barges, and schooners that conveyed Federal army supplies upto this point from Fortress Monroe, viel York ^ ~^^ -^ HEADQU\RTERS INDER C \ A.^ (C uml rWnd Ma^ , ls(,2 )A photograph from a tree-top. Although a long distance from home, Mc-Clellans army presented in the early days of its march up the Peninsulamuch of the panoply of war. The camera caught a cluster of officers tents,probably the headquarters of a division or corps. t pjngit t J I itn i Pub Co()\ THE B VNlvS OF THE P\Ml \RE\ (Looking south from Cum-berland Landing.) The ground here slopes down directly to the supplies for the camps farther up the river were hauled along a well-traveled road which bisected this stretch of encampment. This road, calledNew Kent Road, was the main highway of the region and led to Richmond.
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